swapon, swapoff — enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping
swapon −s [−h] [−V]
swapon [−d] [−f] [ −p priority ] [−v] specialfile...
swapoff [−v] specialfile...
swapon −a [−e] [−f] [−v]
swapoff −a [−v]
swapon is used to specify devices on which paging and swapping are to take place.
The device or file used is given by the specialfile parameter. It may
be of the form −L
label or −U uuid to indicate a device by label
or uuid.
Calls to swapon normally occur in the system boot scripts making all swap devices available, so that the paging and swapping activity is interleaved across several devices and files.
swapoff
disables swapping on the specified devices and files. When
the −a flag is given,
swapping is disabled on all known swap devices and files (as
found in /proc/swaps or
/etc/fstab).
−a,
−−allAll devices marked as ``swap'' in /etc/fstab are made available, except
for those with the ``noauto'' option. Devices that are
already being used as swap are silently skipped.
−d,
−−discardDiscard freed swap pages before they are reused, if
the swap device supports the discard or trim operation.
This may improve performance on some Solid State
Devices, but often it does not. The /etc/fstab mount option discard may be also
used to enable discard flag.
−e,
−−ifexistsSilently skip devices that do not exist. The
/etc/fstab mount option
nofail
may be also used to skip non-existing device.
−f,
−−fixpgszReinitialize (exec /sbin/mkswap) the swap space if
its page size does not match that of the the current
running kernel. mkswap(2) initializes
the whole device and does not check for bad blocks.
−h,−−helpProvide help.
−L
labelUse the partition that has the specified label. (For this,
access to /proc/partitions is needed.)
−p,
−−priority prioritySpecify the priority of the swap device. priority is a value
between 0 and 32767. Higher numbers indicate higher
priority. See swapon(2) for a full
description of swap priorities. Add pri=value to the option
field of /etc/fstab for
use with swapon
-a.
−s,
−−summaryDisplay swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25.
−U
uuidUse the partition that has the specified uuid.
−v,
−−verboseBe verbose.
−V,
−−versionDisplay version.
You should not use swapon on a file with holes. Swap over NFS may not work.
swapon automatically detects and rewrites swap space signature with old software suspend data (e.g S1SUSPEND, S2SUSPEND, ...). The problem is that if we don't do it, then we get data corruption the next time an attempt at unsuspending is made.
swapon may not work correctly when using a swap file with some versions of btrfs. This is due to the swap file implementation in the kernel expecting to be able to write to the file directly, without the assistance of the file system. Since btrfs is a copy-on-write file system, the file location may not be static and corruption can result. Btrfs actively disallows the use of files on its file systems by refusing to map the file. This can be seen in the system log as "swapon: swapfile has holes." One possible workaround is to map the file to a loopback device. This will allow the file system to determine the mapping properly but may come with a performance impact.
The swapon command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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